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Computer aided emergency response systems.

J G Kretzschmar
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Over the past years several, less or more integrated emergency management support and information systems have been developed and implemented. After a short review of the larger, mainly governmentally sponsored systems and of a selection from the smaller commercially available systems, the computer aided emergency response system (CAERS) of the Belgian Nuclear Energy Research Centre is highlighted.

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J G Kretzschmar. 1990. Computer aided emergency response systems.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1670283/

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